Thanks Stuart, Michael & Christine for your quick replies & helpful ideas. Another list member contacted me & is able to meet me. For anyone interested, a site I found yesterday with helpful links concerning Word master docs & styles was http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/05/1070351782482.html Scroll down to Q2 on that web page. David Newton Quoting David Newton : > I have an 1100 page document I'm creating in Word 2002. Yuk! > > I have many questions about the best way to use master documents and styles. > My document > doesn't seem to retain all the formatting that I specify (eg After I update > the TOC, Word often > gives many table cells in the document a para style of TOC 3. I don't think > it's a memory prob.) > > Ideally I'd like to meet with someone face to face in Sydney to discuss, if > anyone has the time > and knowledge. > > (My next project is going to be FrameMaker, I hope) > David Newton > ************************************************** > To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to > austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to > austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. > > To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. > > To search the austechwriter archives, go to > www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter > > To contact the list administrator, send a message to > austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ************************************************** > ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************